About Panoptiman
Panoptiman is a solo project from Stephen Watkins (Tortus, Blowpipe) with the help of Lewi Lewis, Chris Ovenden and Lucy Gulland from Tortus. from : http://freq.powweb.com/freq_wp/?p=98"Mixing Jazz motifs with Drum & Bass is hardly new; however, what Panoptiman achieve in their debut album is a successful blend of Coltrane- style trumpet and skittering breaks, governed by a DIY ethos which stands apart from easy commercialism and shares more with the likes of Pram than any number of goatee’d neo drum-soloists. Worshipping the glitch as much as the breakbeat, the mood shifts from entropic lounge to propulsive chug, from expectant ambience to frantic scuttle across a small, but almost perfectly formed album deserving of a wider release."